Making the Invisible Visible: Experiences of Mixedness for Binational People in Morocco

Gilliéron, Gwendolyn

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“…This current research on mixed individuals gives insights that enrich the previous data by exploring religious transmission and identity formation from a perspective that is still understudied, that of mixed individuals raised in Muslim-Christian practicing families living in Morocco (such cases are quite rare). Although racial classification of mixed individuals in Morocco has recently been explored (Gilliéron, 2020;Therrien, 2020b), we do not know how religious identity is experienced in their daily life. How does religious transmission work in mixed families where two parents practice a different religion?…”

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‘My father is Muslim and my mother is Christian: What about me?’ Religious identity and agency within mixed families in Morocco

Therrien

2022

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This article explores not only the narratives of mixed individuals regarding what has been transmitted to them by their parents in terms of religious background, but also their own religious practice and affiliation. More specifically, the article focuses on mixed individuals who were raised in Muslim–Christian practicing families and who have grown up in Morocco. I will argue that despite the constraints of the religious context and the fact that they were raised in an interreligious practicing family, they are nevertheless active agents in the formation of their religious identity. The context in which they lived impacts their daily life, but not their capacity to make their choices in terms of religious identity. They do not always feel free to display their choices socially, face social pressure to conform to the majority group religious norms and/or family expectations, but develop adaptive practices to socially navigate the different social and family contexts.

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‘My father is Muslim and my mother is Christian: What about me?’ Religious identity and agency within mixed families in Morocco

Therrien

2022

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“…They are perceived as inferior to Moroccans and often experience discrimination. While in Switzerland the perception of immigrants and their descendants has been broadly studied, in Morocco they are still an understudied phenomenon (Gilliéron 2020). Therrien (2020) emphasizes that in Morocco, the perception of mixedness is a complex process interacting with phenotype, gender, class and language.…”

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Changing from Visibility to Invisibility—An Intersectional Perspective on Mixedness in Switzerland and Morocco

Gilliéron

2022

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In the context of intermarriage, mixedness can take different forms. Most often, it refers to a mix of class, religion, nationality, ethnicity or race in a couple. In this article, I go beyond a separate analysis of categories, analyzing the interrelation of these factors. The article discusses how and under which circumstances mixed children become visible in Switzerland and Morocco using a comparative and intersectional approach to mixedness. Based on 23 biographical narrative interviews, I analyze three situations of stigmatization: racialization, language practices and othering due to religious affiliation. Stigmatization processes due to mixedness, it is argued, are a relational phenomenon depending not only on markers such as ‘race’, ethnicity and religion but also on their interplay with gender, class, language and biographical experiences. The results suggest that mixed individuals have found creative ways to navigate their visibility: they normalize their binational origin, look for alternative spaces of belonging, emphasize their ‘Swiss-ness’ or ‘Moroccan-ness’, use languages to influence their social positioning or acquire knowledge about their binational origin in order to confront stigmatizations. The study reveals further that processes of othering due to mixedness are not only an issue in ‘Western’ societies that look back on a long history of immigration and have pronounced migration discourses. Even in Morocco, a country where immigration has so far been a marginal phenomenon, the importance of social hierarchies for the positioning of people of binational origin is evident.

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“…In der neuen Verfassung von 2011 -als Reaktion auf die marokkanische Version des sogenannten ‚Arabischen Frühlings' -wird eine kosmopolitische nationale Identität proklamiert, die sich auf ihr multi-ethnisches Erbe beruft und den Minderheiten mehr Rechte einräumt. Von dieser Definition ist die wachsende Migrationsbevölkerung jedoch (bisher) ausgeschlossen (Gilliéron 2020). Doch mit der zunehmenden wirtschaftlichen und politischen Stabilisierung lassen sich auch immer mehr Migrant:innen in Marokko nieder.…”

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Binationale Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit

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2022

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Biographische Aushandlungsprozesse im Kontext von Mehrfachzugehörigkeit -zwei Einblicke 4.1 Falldarstellung Leyla Bourgiba (Schweiz) 4.1.1 Kontext des Interviews -Arbeitsbündnis 4.1.2 Biographisches Portrait 4.1.3 Rekonstruktion der Lebensgeschichte 4.1.4 Zusammenfassung 4.2 Falldarstellung Abdoulaye Eden (Marokko) 4.2.1 Der Kontext des Interviews -Arbeitsbündnis 4.2.2 Biographisches Portrait 4.2.3 Rekonstruktion der Lebensgeschichte 4.2.4 Zusammenfassung 4.3 Zusammenfassende Betrachtung der Fallanalysen 5 Von Irritationen und Suchbewegungenbiographieanalytische Vergleiche 5.1 Sich des Stigmas bewusst werden 5.1.1 Natio-ethno-kulturelle Anderswerdung bezüglich race und ‚Kultur' 5.1.2 Die Bedeutung von Gender in Stigmatisierungsprozessen 5.1.3 Religion als (k)eine Differenzlinie 5.1.4 Die Bedeutung von class für das Erleben der Anderswerdung 5.1.5 Zwischen Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit 5.2 Schule als sozialer Raum der Anderswerdung 5.2.1 Umgang mit rassistischen Äußerungen von Mitschüler:innen 5.2.2 Unterschied zwischen diskreditierten und diskreditierbaren Schüler:innen 5.3 Die Bedeutung der Familie 5.3.1 Familie als Raum der Mehrfachzugehörigkeit 5.3.2 Anderswerdung im Raum der Familie 5.3.3 Geschwister als Vergleichsfolie für die Selbstdarstellung 5.4 Freundschaftsbeziehung als ein ambivalenter Rückzugsort 5.4.1 Anerkennung durch Peers 5.4.2 Erfahrungen der Anderswerdung in Peerbeziehungen24 65 Die von Goffman eingeführte Unterscheidung zwischen stigmatisierten und normalen Personen ist als Perspektive zu lesen, um Ausschlussmechanismen zu analysieren.

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Making the Invisible Visible: Experiences of Mixedness for Binational People in Morocco

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

‘My father is Muslim and my mother is Christian: What about me?’ Religious identity and agency within mixed families in Morocco

‘My father is Muslim and my mother is Christian: What about me?’ Religious identity and agency within mixed families in Morocco

Changing from Visibility to Invisibility—An Intersectional Perspective on Mixedness in Switzerland and Morocco

Binationale Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit

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